CSC, the giant IT consulting company founded in 1959 is the latest huge, aging tech company to cleave itself into two. CSC is best known for outsourcing contracts and working on huge government contracts. Those are the kind of expensive, multi-year projects that are going out of favor as companies look use cloud computing for more of their tech needs.

Apple Inc. is selling bonds as the iPhone maker looks to fund stock buybacks and dividends.
The company is offering fixed-rate bonds in as many as six parts, Apple said in a filing Monday. The sale comes even as proposed tax law changes have the potential to bring billions of dollars that were earned overseas back into corporate coffers in the U.S.

AP Foto/José Luis MagañaTech companies like Cisco are salivating at the idea that under the Trump administration, they'll be able to bring back their hoards of overseas cash for much lower taxes.
And they are hopeful that Trump will pass tax reform that will reduce corporate taxes forevermore.

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Google isn't the only big name in tech working on a "cure" for death, or at least a cure for a lot of the things associated with aging. Venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Microsoft cofounder and angel investor Paul Allen are all working doing the same.